Word: judd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dana Wallace, 75, famed, criminal lawyer who made his most brilliant (but unsuccessful) defense in the celebrated Ruth Snyder-Judd Gray murder trial in 1927; of pleurisy; in Bay Shore, N.Y. His most dramatic jury-swaying trick: whipping off his spectacles (fitted with plain glass) at the height of a speech, smashing them "by accident" on the jury-box railing, brushing aside the fragments to let the jurors know that nothing mattered except his words...
...tone. But his little talk brought an overwhelming 211-to-13 vote for debate. Next day, Cox made a desperate effort to emasculate the bill with amendments, was beaten only 135 to 103. Not all the debate was pitched to Rayburn's appeal to selfishness; Republican Congressman Walter Judd, onetime medical missionary in China, said: "This is a case where what our hearts prompt us to do coincides with what is in the interest of our country, world order and peace, to do." The vote for final passage...
...Third Symphony of Walter H. Piston '24, Naumberg Professor of Music, will be the featured work in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's annual spring concert on Friday, May 11, Peter H. Judd '53, general manager of the Orchestra, announced yesterday...
...young men turned out nearly 400 strong-some of them in crew cuts and dazzling bow ties. Methodist Walter H. Judd, Minnesota's medical-missionary Congressman, drew long applause when he spoke of the folly of chasing life's "glittering prizes" instead of choosing careers "you will be proud to look back on when you get to the end of the line...
When it comes to taking on new Radcliffe members, though, Peter H. Judd '53, general manager of the orchestra, sometimes has to think twice. Last fall, for instance, he received an irate letter from an old member of the Pierian Sodality, John W. Johnstone '05, who founded the first band ever to play at a Yale football game. Johnstone wrote, "why are there Radcliffe girls on the same stage with Harvard...